Re: Beyond twm

[Piotr Meyer <aniou%smutek.pl@localhost>]

On Thu, Feb 19, 2015 at 03:25:53PM +0000, David Holland wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 19, 2015 at 10:30:44AM +0100, Martin Husemann wrote:
>  > > Yes, Ive had a look and see the switches.  So the simple thing is to dress
>  > > up the fonts and set up a pleasing background.  Perhaps a little work on
>  > > the logo and arrangement of the login widget.
>  > 
>  > I find the plain black background not that bad. But fonts definitively
>  > need more tuning (and too bad we can't use TrueType ones here).
> 
> It's already linked against freetype, is that not sufficient?

Unfortunately - not. Although default install of freetype2 in NetBSD
probably already has enabled previously algorithms [1] thus default
configuration on /etc/fonts/ gave me unpleasant effect [2] - something
between my lovely "sharp" fonts (like in older Windows) and current
Ubuntu feel and look [3 and 4] which I got used to in meantime.

I made some experiments with synchronizing both configurations and
amount of changes wasn't too big and effect was really nice - but due 
to my stupidity I lost that system and my changes in meantime and I'm 
still waiting for my stray motivation.


1 - http://www.freetype.org/patents.html 
2 - http://aniou.smutek.pl/desktopy/desktop-20150208-netbsd1.png
3 - http://aniou.smutek.pl/desktopy/desktop-20150208-linux1.png
    Ubuntu installation uses DejaVu Sans as default.
4 - http://aniou.smutek.pl/desktopy/desktop-20130107.png  
    It was Linux Mint, probably with Ubuntu font, but I'm not so sure.

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Piotr 'aniou' Meyer